Company C Contemporary Ballet

Always keen to dance on the edge, Company C Contemporary
Ballet opens its eleventh season with a slate of world premieres at the Lesher
Center for the Arts (1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek) on Thursday through
Saturday, Jan. 17-19. Artistic director Charles Anderson loves to entertain and
enlighten in equal measure, and the winter program accordingly
encompasses abstraction, storytelling, dark humor, and even some spoken word.
Brian Reeder contributes Being Served,
with couples at a party misbehaving to music by Benjamin Britten. In Patrick
Corbin's For Use in Subhuman Primates
Only, dancers costumed for a rave push each other's boundaries over Massive
Attack's trip-hop beats. Artistic director Charles Anderson dives into new
artistic waters with Polyglot,
choreographed to a recorded monologue by actress Amy Walker. A reprise of
excerpts from Anderson's Beautiful
Maladies, with its wistful Chet Baker soundtrack, completes the program. Thu.-Fri.
8 p.m.; Sat. 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; $23-$45. 925-943-7469 or CompanyCBallet.org